Sample Queston 1a) The School Letter and 1b)

Click on the images to see the sample question and the texts a, b and c. Give yourself 25 mins at most on section 1a and about 1 hour 15 mins on question 1b.

A nice little article about how the word 'digital' has (and will) change through the decades

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History of English at the BBC

Click here to go to the History of English section of the BBC website, looking at the different stages of the development of English, with samples and audio clips.

Analyse Newspaper Headlines

Go to UKFrontpages, a site that brings together the main UK newspapers in one place. Have a go at analysing the headlines of one tabloid and one broadsheet and comparing them. Focus on lexis, grammar and discourse.

UK front pages

Initialisms and the OED

An article on how the OED is adding initialisms from technology to its dictionary.

English Biz -How to Analyse any text

Two articles on approaches to stylistic analysis of texts.

Part One

Part Two

English Biz on Key Constituents

Click here for info on the KCs!